On the Run
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| Production 47455 Original Airdate: 13 May 1978 | |||
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| Written by Steven E. deSouza | |||
| Directed by Thomas J. Blank | |||
| Guest Cast | |||
| Guest Star(s) Christopher Stone as Chris Williams Skip Homeier as Senator Renshaw | |||
| and Andrew Duggan as Dep. Director Parr | |||
| Co-starring Linda Wiser as Sarah Juno Dawson as Agent Harding Mariel Aragon as Reiko Johnny Timko as Tommy | |||
| Uncertain billing (please edit into appropriate category if you have access to this episode) Robert L. Benedetti as Balloon Man | |||
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When Jaime decides to leave the OSI, her resignation is met with opposition, forcing her to flee for freedom or be confined as property of the federal government.
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[edit] Summary
[edit] Deconstructed
Unlike The Six Million Dollar Man series finale, "The Moving Mountain," this final episode of Bionic Woman is written with a sense of closure; Jaime leaving the OSI, Oscar expressing how much like family she had become.
[edit] Memorable Quotes
Jaime: (writing a letter of resignation to Oscar) I'm tired of answering the bugle. I'm tired of being called a winner just because Rudy's genius made it impossible for me to lose. And I'm tired of looking in the mirror and seeing an OSI agent instead of a woman. I'm just tired.
Oscar: So... you're going to lock her up, eh? Is that your idea of a grateful government?
Oscar: (When you put her in the cage) make sure you get her name right - it's not Janey, it's Jaime - Jaime Sommers. Say it.
Senator: What?
Oscar: SAY IT!
Senator: Jaime Sommers.
Oscar: Good! And don't you forget it...
Jaime: Are you telling trying to me that I can't even quit if I want to? I mean, I don't understand you, I thought that I was more than just a pawn to you or even a tool. (Jaime pinches Oscar's arm as she speaks)
Oscar: Jaime, you're hurting my arm.
Oscar: Well, I better get out of here - before I end up telling you that the NSB are on their way over here... that you've got twenty minutes to pack and to get out of here. That I might tell you to run... use all the skills that I taught you... to prevent us from paying you back in this way.
Oscar: You know... Callahan once accused me of being married to the OSI... and if that is the case, you're the closest thing to family I'll ever have. I want you to know, I'm going to miss you very, very much, but I want you to go... be free... find whatever it is you're looking for... 'cause I... well... I love you.
Jaime: (crying) Oscar... I love you too. I do. All I'm lookin' for is whatever's left of Jaime Sommers. You know, you just gave me back a big piece of her. So maybe I can find the rest, huh?
Jaime: They want to put me in a cage, Chris. Put me in a zoo -- and I cannot live like that -- I don't have to.
Chris: I don't believe this. We know more about what's going on in Moscow and Peking than we do at the NSB.
Rudy: It's a rotten political trick. For years now, Parr's been trying to discredit you and get the NSB to take over all the government under cover operations and he's using Jaime as a an issue to do it.
Oscar: Parr believes it's for the good of the country, Rudy. That's the trouble. He thinks he's doing the right thing.
Jaime: Three years ago they brought me back to life. I felt very grateful, okay, I said I would work for them. I decided to become an agent and go on a mission occasionaly. Then occasionally became all the time. Chris, I haven't had any life of my own at all. All I have had is missions. I don't like what I have been doing and I don't like what I've become.
Chris: But it's good enough for me to fall in love with.
Jaime: Oh really? Well what are you in love with? If you're a leg man, honey, you're outta luck.
Tommy: You don't understand. He's not just blind; now he's different.
Jaime: Maybe what's different is the way that you're treating him, Tommy. Look, he can't play ball - so what? I mean, you know that - you both understand that. But I'll bet there's a lot of other things that haven't changed that you could be doing together, huh? He's your father, Tommy.
Jaime: I need some time to have a life of my own also. That may mean marriage, children - I don't know. But it does mean some work that I feel good about: teaching, helping kids, something positive, because, you see, I experience the OSI as negative activity. It's fending off disaster, it's survival time, and I must have some things in my life that give me perspective, so that my work for you will mean something. Now, if that seems unreasonable, I'm sorry, but that's how I feel.
[edit] Trivia
- Scenes from other episodes are used when showing OSI members being surveilled; "Brain Wash," for Oscar, "The Pyramid" for Chris Williams, and "The Antidote" for Rudy Wells and Sarah.
- Mariel Aragon appeared as Kim in the second season episode "Beyond the Call".
- The very last bionic feat Jaime does is burst a tennis ball - it's unknown whether by accident or design, but this was also the very first bionic thing she does in her first episode.
- Another link to her first episode is that this episode features the rhyme "Humpty Dumpty", also spoken by Steve and Jaime in the first.
- This story mirrors Wagner's real life feelings - she wanted to leave the role as she felt that Jaime has completely taken over her life and she wants to return to normality - Jaime's reasons in the story for wanting to leave the OSI.
- Oscar references this episode nine years later in the first reunion film, Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
- Jaime's mugshot in On The Run was also used in her Wanted Posted as part of her cover as Blondie Malone in Rancho Outcast
[edit] Nitpicks
- Sarah explains to Chris that she is temporarily covering for Callahan. But would a doctor, or even a lab technician, cover for a secretary? Rudy Wells' secretary/assistant Lynda Wilson would have been the likelier choice.
